Tag Archives: s
Bears do math.
Link. Smarter than your average …
Higgs not so simple?
Link. Promising: “displaying some unanticipated behaviour”
Russia protects Assad.
Link. What has Assad got?
Wolfram on Turing.
Link. Different perspective. Turing death an accident?
Johny Wheeler.
Link. Physicist.
Quantum Frontiers. New physics blogs from Caltech.
Exoplanet spectroscopy.
Link. One more step.
Good news and bad news from Delaware Lawmakers
Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter review
Link. 802.11n faster than I thought.
Twitter is a Corporate API
Link. Corporations are not nice people.
The Phone Stack.
Link. Clever.
June HIT Standards Committee
Link. CMS vocabulary repository.
Photosynth for iOS.
The return of Poll Taxes.
Link. Oldie but goodie. “Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not,” Holder said, referring specifically to the voter ID law passed in Texas. “Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them. We call those poll taxes.”
iPhone videoconferencing with G+.
Link. Moves ahead of Facetime? Interesting Apple allowed it on iPhone.
Traffic congestion datapoints of the day.
Link. Surprisingly volatile.
No, Romney Didn’t Leave Bain in 1999
Link. Or maybe he just lies to the SEC. Isn’t that a crime?
Relativistic Baseball
Link. xkcd branches out.
Neptune’s brood hatches.
How Google can save itself – sell privacy.
Link. Making an honest woman of her.
RIP WELL.
Link. Long decline.
Police Frequently Get Private Cell Phone Data Without a Warrant.
Link. Does anyone care any more?
Science changing: journals matter less.
Link. Easier to do open data journals.
San Francisco to cease Mac purchases without EPEAT certification.
Link. Good.
Uber vs. Washington DC: This Is Insane
Health care: We don’t want more stuff, we want more years.
Link. Spending rising.
Preventing the weak from voting.
Link. Long tradition.
Is labor lumpish in whitewater times?
Link. Out if equilibria. Persistently.
Odds of record U.S. heat being a random event: 1 in 1.6 million.
Link. Can you hear me now?
Picture of the Century.
Link. Trump.
keep calm. die. carry on
Is Robert Samuelson worse than Friedman?
Link. Less important, but even dumber.
Half a Century of Poverty In America.
Link. A failure of will.
Lessons of 1932.
Link. When China crashes …
Bears.
Link. “If you encounter a bear, don’t run. Back away quietly. Use your bear spray if it’s coming toward you. In the last resort, play dead.”
Early Bilateral Animals, 585 million years ago.
China crash.
Link. Batten hatches.
Change the speed of movies in QuickTime Player
Eject disk images when Finder sidebar is not visible
Google’s itty bitty fine.
Link. FTC fines are a joke.
Rises.
Link. Geek fever.
Children warned name of first pet should contain 8 characters and a digit.
Link. Lest your answers to secret questions be guessable.
Punytive Damages? World’s Biggest Corporate Fines.
Link. Surprisingly encouraging. Fines are MUCH bigger last few years.
Pinboard Turns Three.
Link. The more I use it, the more I like it.
First half of year: hottest on record.
Link. No climate change though. Trust the GOP on that.
A new approach to the Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Link. Evolution is a local optimizer.
Software Inventory.
Link. Backlog cap
Oatmeal uber alles.
Link. Paging the NYT. Great story here!
The Reasons States Are Rejecting Obama’s Medicaid Expansion — Reform Medicaid
Link. Logical and cruel.